[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 260.4 # Storia do Mogor 260.4 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 260.4 - **Language:** English ### [260.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.4) However, there is in this caste of the thieves, as well as in some other castes of the Sūdras and black men, a barbarous practice. When the husband is tired of his wife he gives her a straw called turumbo (turumbu). By the giving of this straw the marriage is broken, so that without any offence against the woman the man can remarry; and equally, without any offence to the man, the wife can take another husband. What is remarkable is that it is not only the husband who may repudiate his wife by that ceremony, but she, too, if she is weary of him, can force him to give her the turumbo (turumbu), the special sign by which he repudiates her and entirely dissolves the marriage. But this practice is not known anywhere in the Brahman or Rajah caste, nor in those of the shopkeepers, nor among Sudras of decent standing; for, although these may divorce their wives and marry others, the divorced wives, either in the husband's lifetime or afterwards, are not able to marry again. In all these better castes, after the husband has attached to the neck of the woman the piece of gold called a tali, the marriage becomes indissoluble. It results that the man may marry again several wives, either successively or simultaneously ; for among the Hindus there is no prohibition against having several wives. There have been kings in these days who have had as many as five thousand at once. But, as to the woman, she can marry only one husband. - [Previous: 260.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.3) - [Next: 260.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.5) - [Up: 260](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.4) · Pramāṇa